As a physician, being on call results in me missing so many family activities in order to take care of others. This is what we do and the responsibility we assume.
It’s too bad that our officials can’t be troubled to serve the American people, whom they’re elected to serve. Completely tone deaf and frankly ridiculous.
I’m fully aware that this job requires tons of travel and crazy hours, but it does indeed bug me that I’m here in DC at 11:30pm voting (for the 4th time!) to fully fund the Homeland budget and missing my kids hoops game tomorrow morning back in Washington because the Senate pulled their BS stunt last night. 🇺🇸